Wire - Announce a new mini album 'Nocturnal Koreans'

Wire are back with a new album

Following the release of their self-titled album last year, Wire return with news of a new mini album ‘Nocturnal Koreans’, due April 29th via PinkFlag. The band are sharing the first single and album titled track online now. Lead single ‘Nocturnal Koreans’ is striking in its diversity, the band fluently negotiating an expansive stylistic range, from immensely catchy Pop to Ambient introspection and beyond.

Bassist Graham Lewis’s lyrics make this one of guitarist Matthew Simms’s favourites on the record, largely because of the associated memories. Speaking about the track.

“It’s a great snapshot of touring America, and when I hear or play that song, it reminds me of the many weird and wonderful times, places and people that cross your path.” - Matthew Simms (Wire)

Having completed a preliminary round of work on their eponymous 2015 album at Rockfield Studios, Wire found themselves with nineteen tracks. Among them, there was a critical mass of eleven aesthetically unified songs, which made up the 'Wire' album. In typical Wire fashion, however, the remaining material was something other: it had the sound of a band already moving in a different direction, beyond the album project in which they were engaged at that time. These tracks were the basis for 'Nocturnal Koreans'.

It’s been almost a decade since Wire reemerged from their post 'Send' hiatus, during which...not for the first time in its history the band appeared to have run its course; in the intervening years, over four albums, they’ve enjoyed a late career creative growth spurt, settling into an inspired, industrious new line-up. 'Nocturnal Koreans' is another unambiguous statement of how far Wire have come since 2007, a timely measure of a band in rude health, still brimming with ideas, imagination and energy.

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